Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-06-19

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the experienced eye of my artistic friend,
and after some persuasion on my part con-
sented to pose for q sketch.
1t must not be supposed that old clothes
monOpOlize these East London markets
Sunday. Far from it. Aside from the
regular markets, which are easily reached
from HoundsditCh, by Fleur de lis Court,
the following streets are crowded with
stalls and barrOWs Sunday: Wentworth,
MiddleSeX, Cutter, GOulstOn, New GOul-
stOn and White streets, and OF course what
remains of Pettieoat Lane and a dozen
other courts, alleys and squares in this
vicinity, each side of the pavement is
lined with barrOws aud stalls, containing
suck a variety of things that it would be
impossible to enumePate them. Heavens
first law is indeed trampled on here. There
is no order. Here is a man chOpping up
meat, and the next stall to him Is grOaning
with oranges and figs. A barrow heaped
up with cOcOanuts alongside of q man
cleaning fish, and perhaps the other side Of
the tishmonger a stall hung with all sorts
of cheap lace and embroidery, Now we
have a i,Ny, fat Jewess selling children's
, underwear. and next TO her a
| aau yelling Gold stewed cells, all Jelly,
sOmethin' what ill do re good. Eels, or
Shops OF the most inviting kind offer for
sale ''PetticOat Laue ducks" which | I'M
derstand are baked sheepsheads, 'cag
mag" or scraps of food, ''cat lap" a
term indicating weak drinks, which alone
can be obtained Sunday morning, for the
public houses are closed; fried fish laid out
ON hamper lids in the windows, ''flOaters, :"
which are small suet buildings in soup,
boiled mashed peas, tarts, buildings and
other tempting Injuries of the locality.
The market is certainly picturesque in
the boldness of its variety. Solemn look
ing stalls ladened with locks, tinware,
saucepans, kettles, oil cloth, rolls of cloth,
leather, brushes, brOOms, old braSsware,
wash leather, combs, hosiery, tools, cut
lery, cast off swords, glassware, croekery,
furniture, beds, beddingS, sandwiched in
with fippant candy barrows, hockey
pOkey" and penny lee carts, cake bas-
kets, enliyened with spicy looking glass
Jars of green picked cucumbers, bright
red cabbage and onions, soft, we'll picked,
aud rs big as eggs.
Tempting displays Ofall kinds of eatableS
abound in prOfusion. BarrOws heaped ny
with immense leaves OF bread, ONE weigh
ing rs much Is fourteen pounds; Others
displaying fowls, and fish, and meat, in
| Guiding all kinds of sauSages and German
buildings. Intermingled in great diversity
come the vegetable and fruit stalls and
barrows. Bunches of rhubarb, of turniI
tops, of eaulilOwers, OF radisheS, of water
creSs, baskets of oranges, OF nuts, OflemOns,
of apples, all being sold with a rush. The
noise was d~eafening. A thousand human
threats each trying to talk louder than the
other. Each trying TO attract the atten-
ton of the surging crowd of buyers.
Next to the stall of n hOarse voiced ruff
6an shouting potatoes was that Of a dealer
in the cheaper grades OF plush and cotton
v~elvets. The goods, in great variety Of
shades, were neatly laid put or the stalls
There were ribbon stalls, and bazaTs giyer
over to buttons, toys, hat trimmings, brio
a-bae, photographs, spOnges, locust beans
fancy slippers, china ornaments, tobacco
pipes, cheap books and frippery of al
kinds. Occasional quarfels arise as to the
position of the baTrows, and last Sunday 8
couple Of very black whiskered gentlemen
lesliy came 10 nAoNS. 1hC hlSpuSo Wa
between n fancy notion man and s
''chIna ornament man, the former going
up to the latter with cleDehed fists, anC
saying:
mo more O. yer lip, OF III LET yer ave
one Of the blOOmin' kiSser."
Then friends interlered, and the bound
ary question was submitted to arbitration
The wonder is that quaTreling is not NOR
frequent
Il How the serious saucepan man and the
dreary dealer in secondhand fuTnitur'
managed to get along with the ~frivolou,
ginger pop man, with his flying eorks anG
e~ffervescent jokes is 3 mystery
How the s~Our-lOOking pickle mar
kept on good terms with the fat anG
Jolly butcher; or how the pale faced dry
goods man, with his laees and embroid'
cries, held his temper with his neighbol
the tishmOnger who de~eorates his dry goods
with fish scales, are all matters that / am
unable 10 explain. Such q medley as this
market, in my opinion, cannot be found
in any other city but London, and that il
should still exist here on Sunday morning
is strange.
That it goes on nearly all day Sunday,
under the nose of the Sabbatharians who
exclude the masses of the people from the
National picture galleries and such places
as the Geological Gardens, and within sound
of the church bells, is true. The eustO-
mers who frequent this market are, mnny
of them, rough ones from the very worst
slums of London. They are men engaged
in pursuits that keep thin until late Sat
urday night, and few of them who
have fingered too long in the public
houses on the night preceding
Sunday. And. Of course, there are thou.
sands of Others, from all parts Of the town,
in search Of bargains. The crowd is still
further swelled by the curious attracted
by the enliyened scene and bright dis.
plays. have purpOsly Ommitted in this
letter any reference TO the old cloth trade
in England. Having interviewed several
OF the largest dealers, it will take another
letter to adequately treat on the many en-.
rious and interesting facts collected.
ROBKEf r. PORTER.